DOC NYC 2015

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A Good American A Good American
A Good American and I Am Sun Mu
The Anthropologist (Country: US, Russia, Peru, Kiribati; Year: 2016; Director: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger; Writer: Daniel A Miller; Stars: Mary Catherine Bateson, Susan Crate, Margaret Mead, Kathryn Yegorov-Crate)
The legacy of Margaret Mead.
Barge (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Ben Powell)
The voyage of a Mississippi towboat and its precious cargo to its destination in New Orleans.
Bluespace (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Ian Cheney)
Bluespace sets out on a creative expedition to two planets: Earth, where rising seas threaten our existence, and Mars, whose canals and ice offer science-fiction authors and astrobiologists the promise of terraforming and colonisation.
A Good American (Country: US, Austria; Year: 2014; Director: Friedrich Moser; Writer: Friedrich Moser, Friedrich Moser; Stars: William Binney, Thomas Drake, Edward Loomis, Kirk Wiebe, Tim Shorrock, Jesselyn Radack, Diane Roark)
The story of code-breaker Bill Binney and the computer program he claims could have prevented 9/11.
I Am Sun Mu (Country: US, South Korea, China; Year: 2015; Director: Adam Sjöberg; Writer: Adam Sjöberg)
Documentary about the North Korean defector and pop artist.
A Journey Of A Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers (Country: US, Pakistan; Year: 2015; Director: Geeta Gandbhir, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy)
Following a group of Bangladeshi women police officers on a UN peacekeeping mission to Haiti.
Newman (Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jon Fox)
A backwoods inventor's battle against the establishment.
P.S. Jerusalem (Country: Canada, Israel; Year: 2015; Director: Danae Elon; Stars: Luai Musa Hatib, Amos Touitou Elon, Andrei Touitou Elon, Tristan Touitou Elon, Philip Touitou)
Filmmaker Danae Elon grew up in Jerusalem as the daughter of writer Amos Elon, then relocated to New York City. In this film, she chronicles what happens when she and her husband Philip, a French-Algerian Jew who never lived in Israel, move their family to Jerusalem.
The Sunshine Makers (Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Cosmo Feilding-Mellen)
The untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture.
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